TWIF: voting for fennec icon is open: [Poll] Vote on new icon for Fennec - #2 by Nuntius
Should get an end date though, maybe a week after the twif announcement? @Nuntius what do you think?
Agreed. That would be the 25th of August? Is that okay?
Edit: I’ll close in manually then, don’t wanna fiddle with the automatic closure now.
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+1 for Mattermost
-1 for DRM (for now)
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Just to let everybody know, I will be making next week’s TWIF as @Coffee is on vacation. Tell him thank you for the last 16 weeks of TWIF if you get the chance.
As this will be my first TWIF please don’t judge if it doesn’t live up to the high bar set by @Coffee. And be sure and submit any and all interesting things from the week.
Happy Hacking!
One idea for the future: Include app icons in TWIF. The index parsing code is already there for the website build, it’s probably not too hard to write some jekyll magic that inserts the app icon and possibly even an abbreviated version of the “what’s new” section from the index if you give it an appid.
But that’s wishful thinking for now.
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for the app update news:
“A Photo Manager” the gallery app with tag support and powerfull Openstreetmap integration has a major update to 0.7.0 with new icons.
Improvements: To find photos you can use the new “search-bar”, a date-picker or pick “virtual albums” from folder-picker or any filemanager.
Next week there will be a bugfix release 0.7.1 that will fix the broken “show in new gallery/map”
This week both OSMAnd and Maps have been a major update: osmand release 3.1: Blog | OsmAnd
And for maps at least openstreetmap login has been fixed, can’t find a changelog currently.
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Several of the microG apps were updated this week.
- microG Services Core: Bumps faked Google Play Services version to 12.8.79; fixes GCM push notifications for some apps; various fixes for Android Oreo.
- microG Services Framework Proxy: minor bug fix.
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In the official F-Droid repo? microg has a separate one…
Maybe. Do you have more specific suggestions than that? Does anyone else think it’s too much?
Not sure, but latest ones added all sorts of info
- Highlights/In this edition: feels redundant
- Decentralized Index Generation: nothing to write about yet(!?)
- Send tips to…and then again Feedback…have kinda the same content.
(yes I know you @Coffee didn’t write the last one though :D)
While this looks fine on a monitor, I guess most would/might (stats?) read it on a mobile device, where all that fluff text ends up scrolled…and scrolled…and so on
This makes the news page look a lot better though. It also helps people quickly decide if there’s anything interesting for them to read in there before scrolling down, especially on a mobile device. 
I’ll have PRs ready soon which will improve things even further by respecting the cutmarks.
Maybe there’s nothing of value to you in that section, and that’s okay. It can be valuable to others though. For example, it gets the word out that we’re thinking in that direction, and people who are specialized or interested in this can contact us and get involved at an early stage.
That’s a good point. I’ll have a think about how to rework that into something more unified and compact.
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Yes, it is a separate repo. But I thought it still might be worth mentioning as part of the “greater F-droid community”. I use microG and love it (mainly for free, privacy respecting, network location services) but it also lets me use my bank’s (nonfree) app from GPlay without Google Services installed on my device.
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Since it’s for root only devices, makes it even more niche than F-Droid users are already
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I know it is very niche. However, their custom build of LineageOS comes with F-Droid and the privileged extension by default. I feel they have something quite useful to offer the F-droid community. microG is the only free software, privacy respecting implementation of network based location services that I know of and they actively promote F-Droid by preinstalling for their users.
Also, root isn’t necessary if microG is installed as a system app. In fact root isn’t available on the default builds so that people have the choice of installing the su binary or not.
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I guess we could do that, but I’m going to need help with this. I know virtually nothing about microG.
Maybe we should do this only for really big updates. After all, we’re already ignoring lots of updates in F-Droid main because it’s just too much to handle.
That’s fine. If they update during a week when I’m writing it I’ll mention it. If I ever ask anyone to mention it again, I’ll write up that part.
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MicroG (UnifiedNlp) is the exception to the rule : it replaces embedded GooglePlayServices and needs to spoof exact version_code serie used by Google
-https://www.apkmirror.com/?post_type=app_release&searchtype=apk&s=Google+play+services (sorry for this link…)
-Bump version to 12.8.79 · microg/GmsCore@4040e3d · GitHub
So latest marvin’s decision is 12.8.79 (personally I would enjoy anticipated 13.9.99 but that could break stability or interacted apps ?)
EDIT -following F-Droid repository - microG Project the built app is already somewhere. Also when referring to custom roms, Omnirom is conveniently appointed as 'home of the brave" for MicroG.
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The new MicroG version should be built in FDroid and then be mentioned. Then everybody happy 